It isn’t a matter of getting the body you want, it’s a matter of doing the most you can with the body you have.

The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

We run to undo the damage we've done to body and spirit. We run to find some part of ourselves yet undiscovered.

Being inspired is fine for a week, and being motivated might work for a month or so, but to make any lifestyle change last a lifetime, you need dedication.

I am a runner because I run. Not because I run fast. Not because I run far. I am a runner because I say I am. And no one can tell me I'm not.

Focus on where you are instead of where you wish you were. The joy will follow.

I didn't train all that time just to come here and get it over with as fast as I can

Running is not just exercise; it is a lifestyle.

It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination.

The joy is in the journey, not the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else.

I'm not saying running could solve all of the world's problems, but I think it would be a good start.

The author says the earliest Australian aborigines devoted extraordinary amounts of energy to enterprises no one now can understand.

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable.

I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.

There's nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who choose to think for themselves.

Since sorrow follows joy As autumn does the spring Man must transcend the joys Of earth, which sorrows bring.

Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works.

Please feel free to take this personally.

It's innate in me to be a Democrat - a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There's not a lot of those anymore. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong. That's just the way I feel.

If the game is run properly as a professional game, you do not need 57 old farts running rugby.